Past Quotes
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.Elizabeth II
No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be positive in addressing the envelope to your future, For enclosed are your efforts from the past. Be certain of the postage and double check what class.Unknown
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.John Buchan
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.Virginia Woolf
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit - Editorial, April 1982
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.Albert Einstein
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.Edward Thomas, Poems (1917) "Early One Morning".
But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.Arthur C. Clarke
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.La Rochefoucauld
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.Maya Angelou
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Look back, and smile on perils past.Sir Walter Scott
The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions.William Wordsworth
The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.Samuel Butler, 1835 - 1902
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.Denis Watley
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.Andr Maurois
Forget the past and live the present hour.Sarah Knowles Bolton
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.Robert Green Ingersoll
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.Frederick Henry Hedge
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.Bob Dylan, "If you see her, say hello".
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.Maurice Masterlinck
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.Ken Lancaste
The future is the past returning through another gate.Arnold Glasgow
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.Bertrand Russell
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - Your destiny - Are here and now.Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.Victor Hugo
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.Napoleon Bonaparte
Danger past, God forgotten.Scottish Prove
